Brainspotting Therapy
Brainspotting therapy
BSP, best for:
Abusive experiences | Anger | Anxiety | Attacks | Bullying | Critical incidents | Drug & Alcohol use| Epilepsy | Flashbacks | Insomnia & Sleeping difficulties inc. | Sleep Walking | Panic attacks | Phobias | Road Traffic Accidents | PTSD | Rape | Shootings | Sport Performance, Trauma, & 'Yips' | Stress & Burnout | Trauma | Witnessing trauma
Brainspotting/BSP in brief:
Where you look changes how you feel. When we are feeling stressed or tired of someone we may 'roll our eyes', this is an sub/unconscious way of coping with that stress. Or we may look to a certain position when we are feeling a particular way. When we feel there is a correlating 'eye position' to hook into that feeling. With a skilled, and highly attuned therapist, work can be done..
When you are stressed you may have noticed you feel chest pains, or have an upset stomach, and although you sense these physical sensations in the body - it is actually your brain where you feel and process them. When certain parts of your brain are 'off-line' or doing something else you may not feel..
Brainspotting/BSP, works by using eye positions to 'activate' and 'process' difficulties such as stress or anxiety, these are held in the brain & body. Many approaches of therapy only touch on this aspect of the work, whereas BSP goes deep into the nervous system (The Brain's Limbic system).
So for example: If you feel anxious, BSP technique will help you start you to be able to deal with that anxiety by working from a 'body up' subcortical/subconscious region, through to a neocortex/conscious level and back through, utilising all the regions of brain. This is really what I call 'processing'.
A lot of people's anxiety is caused by an instinct to avoid anxiety, and so because the anxiety is avoided, the process continues. This is why anxious people continue to feel anxious for so long.
An example of this might be "I'm not going out it's horrible" and so you avoid the 'anxiety'. With Brainspotting we bypass the cognitive/neocortex (the thinking part of the brain), and start to work with the roots of the where the difficulty actually lies, with the felt sense of the anxiety. It is not enough to simply think in a different way, or challenge your thought as this would only dissociate you further from your experience, perpetuating the problem.
BSP helps your brain start to deal with, and cope with whatever is bothering it without too much talking or trying to work it out - it just happens. The more we train ourselves to do this, the better we get at it. The amazing thing about the the brain is that it is quick at adapting, and effective at healing from difficult situations - given the right conditions.
BSP is about becoming clear of all the stuff that is going on for you. It might be from the past, present, or from the idea of a future event. It is about what is affecting you in the here and now. It helps your mind to file away the trauma, or difficulty that has become stuck.
I believe Brainspotting gives a deeper profound relational state of self, whereby the therapist is highly attuned to their client. For me I believe it functions to integrate the whole 'self', creating a 'congruence' and improved relationship between one's brain, body and mind. It is my belief that it is the congruence between the brain regions that heals, and that this congruence is formed through the neurons in your brain being strengthened, and even new neurons being formed.
If you are interested in BSP/Brainspotting then get in touch. When I have therapy I use this therapy.
Abusive experiences | Anger | Anxiety | Attacks | Bullying | Critical incidents | Drug & Alcohol use| Epilepsy | Flashbacks | Insomnia & Sleeping difficulties inc. | Sleep Walking | Panic attacks | Phobias | Road Traffic Accidents | PTSD | Rape | Shootings | Sport Performance, Trauma, & 'Yips' | Stress & Burnout | Trauma | Witnessing trauma
Brainspotting/BSP in brief:
Where you look changes how you feel. When we are feeling stressed or tired of someone we may 'roll our eyes', this is an sub/unconscious way of coping with that stress. Or we may look to a certain position when we are feeling a particular way. When we feel there is a correlating 'eye position' to hook into that feeling. With a skilled, and highly attuned therapist, work can be done..
When you are stressed you may have noticed you feel chest pains, or have an upset stomach, and although you sense these physical sensations in the body - it is actually your brain where you feel and process them. When certain parts of your brain are 'off-line' or doing something else you may not feel..
Brainspotting/BSP, works by using eye positions to 'activate' and 'process' difficulties such as stress or anxiety, these are held in the brain & body. Many approaches of therapy only touch on this aspect of the work, whereas BSP goes deep into the nervous system (The Brain's Limbic system).
So for example: If you feel anxious, BSP technique will help you start you to be able to deal with that anxiety by working from a 'body up' subcortical/subconscious region, through to a neocortex/conscious level and back through, utilising all the regions of brain. This is really what I call 'processing'.
A lot of people's anxiety is caused by an instinct to avoid anxiety, and so because the anxiety is avoided, the process continues. This is why anxious people continue to feel anxious for so long.
An example of this might be "I'm not going out it's horrible" and so you avoid the 'anxiety'. With Brainspotting we bypass the cognitive/neocortex (the thinking part of the brain), and start to work with the roots of the where the difficulty actually lies, with the felt sense of the anxiety. It is not enough to simply think in a different way, or challenge your thought as this would only dissociate you further from your experience, perpetuating the problem.
BSP helps your brain start to deal with, and cope with whatever is bothering it without too much talking or trying to work it out - it just happens. The more we train ourselves to do this, the better we get at it. The amazing thing about the the brain is that it is quick at adapting, and effective at healing from difficult situations - given the right conditions.
BSP is about becoming clear of all the stuff that is going on for you. It might be from the past, present, or from the idea of a future event. It is about what is affecting you in the here and now. It helps your mind to file away the trauma, or difficulty that has become stuck.
I believe Brainspotting gives a deeper profound relational state of self, whereby the therapist is highly attuned to their client. For me I believe it functions to integrate the whole 'self', creating a 'congruence' and improved relationship between one's brain, body and mind. It is my belief that it is the congruence between the brain regions that heals, and that this congruence is formed through the neurons in your brain being strengthened, and even new neurons being formed.
If you are interested in BSP/Brainspotting then get in touch. When I have therapy I use this therapy.
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